The Emotional Veil

The Emotional Veil 

2024

Media: Screen Print on Fabric 

10 ft x 30 yards

Smith’s very first large-scale installation piece “The Emotional Veil”,  maps her emotion over the course of 72 days. Each day Smith recorded the main emotion she experienced to add to her emotion collection, what you see here is this record, a color for each feeling and a window into her mental health. Smith has collected data for over a year and is still collecting, making this piece an ongoing project. Smith lifts the veil and highlights the unseen, through this display of vulnerable data, she destigmatizes mental health and emphasizes that ups and downs are a normal part of life.